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Don't Stay Home · 311

EXERCISE 6 OF 34
Groove A -- Part A
38 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCQHFA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Don't Stay Home on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 2:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-45 and ride through bars 46-74.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-11, 21-27 and 37-43 -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--g----x---|
BD |x-x-------x--x-x|
Don't Stay Home -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 44, 45, 49, 54, 55, 56 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C, F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-49 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Don't Stay Home?

108 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Don't Stay Home hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Don't Stay Home?

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 44, 45, 49, 54, 55, 56 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED